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02/15/2011

Anyone that is interested can check out Ubuntu's Developer Week on IRC...

Sessions to Note

Most of the events planned for the upcoming Developer Week, scheduled to run Feb. 28-March 5, 2011, are similar to those offered in the past, and cater to people looking for introductions to various development-related topics. What makes the latest developer week stand out, however, is the series of events related to Unity, the new desktop interface which will become Ubuntu’s default beginning with the 11.04 release this April.

01/24/2011

Joe Brockmeier reports that Virtualbox 4 is one of the few open source projects fairing well under Oracle....

A couple of projects have done well under Oracle, or appear to be doing. VirtualBox, for instance, has released a fairly decent major update (4.0). The project also did away with the split between a proprietary release and open source edition, consolidating into one release with the proprietary bits split out into extensions. That might be good for the project in the long run because it now gives the community a way to add functionality through extensions rather than trying to get features into the core release (which still requires going through Oracle developers — it has no contributors outside the company).

01/21/2011

Amazon Digital Services, Inc. today announced that the popular Kindle
Digital Text Platform (DTP) is extending the 70 percent royalty option
to include books sold to Canadian customers. This royalty option is
available for books sold to Canadian customers from the Kindle Store for
Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle DX, or one of the Kindle apps for iPad,
iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry, PC, Mac, Windows Phones and
Android-based devices. Kindle Digital Text Platform is also changing its
name to Kindle Direct Publishing.

01/18/2011

The sudden decision by the company’s chief executive to take a medical leave for the third time in less than a decade raises anxieties about the leadership of the company he helped found more than three decades ago. It also puts the spotlight again on several senior executives who have been helping Mr. Jobs run the company, in particular Timothy D. Cook, the chief operating officer, who will take over day-to-day operations during Mr. Jobs’s leave.

Although the article is not released at the best of times (Steve Job's medical leave) and would likely not be covered by the NYT under other conditions, the article provides a superficial, but good overview of the some of the leadership at Apple.